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105 Baiting Penny

“Miss Penny, the food is ready,” Butler Jen announced outside Penny’s room.

“Okay, Butler Jen! I’ll just finish this!” she answered with a wide smile.

After ten minutes, Haines knocked on her door.

“Penny? Do you want to eat?” he asked, head peeking in the door.

Penny, who was sitting in the study chair, looked back at him and said. “Just a minute, Uncle. I will come down after this.”

“Okay.” Haines slowly closed the door and sighed.

After Haines, one of the servants also came to get her. However, Penny kept saying she would come down to eat after she finished her homework.

Thirty minutes later… everyone looked up when the head maid came down with a grim expression. It only meant Penny used the same excuse.

Everyone had been discreet about their plans for today, but it seemed they had to tell her about it just to make her come down! What a dilemma.

Butler Jen scanned the faces of the Bennet couple and their boys. Their worries were apparent. He then glanced at Haines, only to see the latter studying the family.

“It seems… it’s my fault; Haines confessed, and they shifted their attention to him. “Penny didn’t even remember it was her birthday, but I greeted her.”

She acted strangely since then.

“Sir Haines, I don’t think that’s the case, Butler Jen argued, but Charles already spoke.

“What do you mean by that Haines?” asked Charles. “Are you saying she purposely tried to forget her birthday?”

“I can’t say that confidently, but that’s what I think.”

Allison pursed her lips. “So, Mrs. Cortez is telling the truth, huh? That Penny doesn’t like. birthdays.”

Allison reached out to Jessa carly this morning. As usual, Jessa was aggressive with a tone as if the entire world were against her. But when Allison told Jessa about their plans for Penny’s birthday, Jessa somehow calmed down and told her some advice.

According to Jessa, Penny never planned or thought of her birthday. It wasn’t like Penny disliked it, said Jessa, but rather, she openly said it was unnecessary to make a big deal out of it. Even so, during her birthdays, Jessa told Allison she would cook for Penny and the Cortez Family would sing her a happy birthday. Before Penny was found by her real family, Jessa planned a trip for the family.

Allison didn’t think a trip would be a good idea since they still had school tomorrow, but she

made a mental note of it. Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

“Ali, I don’t think she hates it,” Charles squeezed her shoulder with a smile. “Today, she’ll have a

105 Baiting Penny

birthday with the family. And then next time, we’ll do some charity events. Right, boys?” The Bennet Brothers nodded because they informed their parents of Penny’s good cause.

“All we have to do is make her come down, Charles huffed, his expression slowly turning solemn. At this point, it looked like a mission for them.

“I’ll call her –”

“Aha!” Allison’s remarks halted when Slater suddenly bumped the bottom of his fist against his palm. “I have an idea!”

Everyone raised their brows at the third young master, watching his lips broaden from ear to

car.

“Slater, what are you planning?” Atlas inquired suspiciously.

“Heh.” Slater raised his chin really high with his hand on his hips. “I got this!” 1

Penny busied herself in checking the stock market for an update. She already finished her assignments and received the report from James. So far, James was doing a diligent job. [From: Lookout

Boss, do I have to go to school early tomorrow?]

Her brows rose as she saw a notification on the right lower corner of the screen. She rubbed her chin, thinking that James had been going to school one hour before his class started. He also took the diligence of joining Ray’s fan club to be her spy.

“He’s really good at his job, she muttered because James had already done all of that, even though she only asked him to check the situation first. “Well, I’ll just be prepared in case all the other fan clubs pull any stunt on me.

Penny opened the chat box and typed:

[To: Lookout

No need. Thanks.]

James, who had been waiting for her reply, shut his eyes when he saw her typing and her message popped out. He wasn’t ready for any other orders just yet.

Slowly, he peeked from his one eye, thinking she had another order for him. Much to his surprise, her answer was short and precise.

“No need…?” he whispered, rubbing his eyes in case he misread. When he was certain her message wasn’t just a part of his imagination, he quickly thanked her ten times and logged in to his game.

Finally, he could play. He felt like this was more of a reward and somehow, he appreciated it more than the rewards his busy parents had given him.

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Back to Penny, her face contorted at the words of gratitude written in caps lock.

“Is he that happy?” she muttered, arching a brow when she heard another knock on the door. “I’m coming in a bit! Almost done!”

Whoever was knocking on her door, Penny already assumed he or she wanted to tell her that she should eat.

“Butler Jen already gave me snacks earlier…” she pouted, thinking everyone here just wanted to feed her into oblivion. She didn’t mind eating plenty. It was just that Penny didn’t have an appetite tonight. She was just waiting for it to pass because she didn’t want to eat all alone on her birthday.

Knock knock

Penny blinked at the door, waiting for someone to open it. Everyone who called her peeked their heads in the door, so she was expecting the same. But after the third knock, she huffed.

“Fine,” she murmured, jumping out of the chair to open the door.

When she opened the door, deep lines appeared between her brows because no one was outside. For a second, Penny held her breath.

Was she being haunted?

Before her mind would go wild, she noticed a wrapped candy on the floor.

“Huh? What’s this?” She picked up the candy on instinct, opening the wrapper which revealed a round chocolate inside. “Wow.”

Without thinking of anything, Penny habitually shoved the chocolate in her mouth. Her eyes sparkled at the strawberry filling melting inside.

This is good…“her train of thoughts halted when she saw more candies on the floor. “Wow.”

Her eyes

eyes shimmered as she walked out to pick up the next candy. Once she picked them up and ate, her mind exploded with so much excitement at the different flavors of each one. Little did she know, she was slowly heading to the mezzanine.

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